Chase Freedom, Discover It, and Citi Dividend Q2 Category Comparisons
On you marks, get set, shop! It is almost April (technically today is March 16, so we round to the closest month), so here is a run down of all the rotating cash back categories. (Hint, bust out your gardening gloves and tool belt, it’s time to get to work!)
Chase Freedom Categories:
UPDATE 3/23/2014 at 11AM PST: Shopkick lowered the amount that you will earn for shopping at Office Depot, so I had to recalculate my numbers. Thank you Rajiv for the heads up.
Office Depot + Plink + Shopkick = 1 Big Happy Family
Create a Shopkick account here.
Plink Points not enough? Well, you are in luck then. A new company called Shopkick will reward you with Shopkick “Kicks” aka points for certain purchases. The great thing is you can double dip with Plink Points and Shopkick Kicks on all Office Depot purchases. You can link up to 6 Visa and MasterCard credit cards to Shopkick (hopefully one is an Ink Bold/Plus card). The payout structure is shown below. You earn 1 Kick per dollar plus bonus Kicks if you spend more than $25, $50, or $75.
Let’s say you wanted to buy a $200 Visa gift card at Office Depot with your Chase Ink Bold card, your total would come to $206.95. Here is what you would get back:
So what exactly is a Kick worth? Continue reading
$99 Amazon Prime starting March 20, $30 Office Depot Plink Cap, and a Small VRC Change
According to the Wall Street Journal (article), Amazon will raise the price of their Prime Membership from $79 to $99 starting March 20. If your subscription renews after that date, you will be charged the new subscription price. Luckily, Dan’s Deal has all the details here. Dan shows you how you can “gift yourself” a year of Amazon Prime. You can gift yourself another year of Amazon Prime here.
If you are new to Amazon Prime, you can try a 30 day free trial here.
I almost forgot to mention, you can take advantage of this trick to give Amazon Prime to family members for free here.
I don’t want to say that I warned you, but I warned you… Here is what the Office Depot Plink offer looked like on Day 1:
And here is what it looks like today (Day 3):
Office Depot now in Plink… Until April 10, 2014
Not a Plink member? Join Plink by clicking here.
Can’t we just all get along (and have both Staples and Office Depot as Plink participating merchants)? Well today is the day that Staples says good bye and Office Depot says hello.
Here are the full terms for Office Depot and Plink. They have the same points-earning structure as Staples, but this offer will only be around until April 10. Then what? Office Max’s turn to be a Plink merchant? If you look at the terms of the offer closely, you will see that there is no “limit 10 transactions per month” clause. I bet we will see that line appear soon.
Another Reason to go to Staples… 11 Reams of Free Printer Paper
As if you didn’t need *another* reason to go to Staples. There is currently a FAR (free after rebate) deal going on at Staples for a ton of paper.
Here are the 2 coupons you need (Staples Coupon.pdf):
